Poker Tournament News
Fresh off the finale of the World Series of Poker Europe, poker’s international vagabonds have traipsed from Cannes, France, to San Remo, Italy, for the second Main Event on the European Poker Tour’s Season Nine schedule. The Casino San Remo was filled with players looking to take down what has traditionally been one of the… Read more »
Although it might have been lost amid the clamor over Phil Hellmuth extending his record with his thirteenth bracelet win in the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe Championship Event, Canada’s Mike “SirWatts” Watson had a nice evening in Cannes himself last night in winning the €50,000 Majestic High Roller. 51 players gathered earlier this… Read more »
The money bubble burst Tuesday at the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Tuesday as the field was narrowed from 77 players to just 24. Leading the final three tables is 2010 November Niner Joseph “subiime” Cheong, who started Day 2 in 9th place. He goes into Day 3 with 1.381 million chips,… Read more »
The population of Cannes, France is dwindling. A total of 230 players from the combined Days 1A and 1B hit the felts on Day 2 of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOP-E) Main Event Monday and at the end of the night, there were just 77 left with chips. The Ukraine’s Sergii Baranov enters… Read more »
Day 1B of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOP-E) Championship Event is in the books in Cannes, France, with 205 players paying the €10,450 to get in on the action on Sunday. 115 of them survived to play in today’s Day 2 and will combine with the exact same number of players from Day… Read more »
The opinions in this editorial do not reflect the positions of the ownership or management of Poker News Daily. In the past couple of years – perhaps due to the shrinkage of the poker economy, perhaps to ensure notable names stick around a bit longer – a particular tournament format has reared its head on… Read more »
On Sunday, Imed Ben Mahmoud said it would happen. On Wednesday, it did. France got its first WSOP Europe (WSOPE) bracelet winner and, even better, it was on its home soil. Roger Hairabedian won Event #3: €5,300 Pot-Limit Omaha in Cannes, France, defeating a rather small field of just 96 other competitors. For his victory,… Read more »
Antonio Esfandiari is certainly enjoying himself at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) this year. Less than three months after his $18 million win in $1 million buy-in The Big One for One Drop at the WSOP in Las Vegas this summer, Esfandiari has taken the title in the €1,000 + €100 No-Limit Hold’em Re-entry… Read more »
The first event of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) came to a close Sunday at Hotel Majestic Barriere in Cannes, France with Imed Ben Mahmoud winning €147,099 in the €2,500 + €200 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em contest. While he hails from Tunisia, Mahmoud is currently as much of a local winner as there might… Read more »
More than half of the 1,181 players who tossed in $3,300 + $200 for the 2012 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event were still around to compete in Day 2 of the tournament on Tuesday. Of those 625 players, 174 remain for Wednesday’s Day 3 as the field continues its march towards… Read more »
Even though there were already two calendar days of play in the 2012 World Poker Tour (WPT) Malta Main Event, Day 2, like all Day 2’s after dual starting flights, felt like a fresh start to a new tournament. It is like Days 1A and 1B were “play-in” days that were required to get into… Read more »
Day 1B of the 2012 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open is in the books and Pennsylvania’s Brian Lemke bagged what turned out to be by far the most chips of anyone in either starting flight. With 272, 575 chips he outpaced fellow Day 1B players Kyle Bowker and James Poper by sizable 71,000… Read more »
Sunday’s field for the first starting flight of the 2012 World Poker Tour (WPT) Malta Main Event was small – just 64 players – and while the second starting flight was larger as expected, it still didn’t make the tournament any sort of grand spectacle. With 105 players registering Monday, the total field grew to… Read more »
While the Casino at Portomaso is fielding a small collection of players at World Poker Tour (WPT) Malta, the Borgata in Atlantic City is hosting a simultaneous WPT event of much more significant size. The WPT Borgata Poker Open enjoyed a field of 374 for Day 1A of its $3,300 + $200 Main Event Sunday,… Read more »
Perhaps it is fitting that a World Poker Tour (WPT) event in a tiny country had a tiny first day this weekend. Regardless of the numbers, though, it is still a World Poker Tour event and the winner still becomes a member of the Champions Club. That said, just 64 players paid the €3,000 +… Read more »
Organizers of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Grand Prix de Paris wanted to get the field 143 down to 72 in just four or five levels Wednesday. Mission accomplished. After just four levels on Day 2, there were just 63 players remaining, a full table fewer than the goal. Philipp “Philbort” Gruissem will be the… Read more »
It turned out to be a small field this year at the 2012 World Poker Tour (WPT) Grand Prix de Paris. Just 96 players put down the €7,500 buy-in on Day 1A and only another 132 followed suit on Day 1B, creating a total field of 228 players. That is well below last year’s mark… Read more »
The International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT) announced on Tuesday the signing of David Benyamine as an ambassador for the ambitious event, set to take place next year. The deal comes just days after fellow poker player Patrik Antonius was brought onboard. The two join Liz Lieu, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, and Sam Trickett as members… Read more »
The Main Event is now underway at one of the legendary stops on the World Poker Tour: the WPT Grand Prix de Paris at the famed Aviation Club de France in Paris. The Aviation Club was one of the original venues on the Tour when it hosted the seventh event, then called the Euro Finals… Read more »
Chris Ferguson has won a live tournament sponsored by PokerStars. That’s got to sound surprising, considering Ferguson was one of Full Tilt Poker’s founders and should be in hiding after his poker room’s scandal. Fortunately for poker fans who don’t want to see the long-haired card banana-slicer acquire another penny, it wasn’t “the” Chris Ferguson… Read more »
With the final four months of the 2012 tournament poker season revving up, poker pro Dan Smith has surged to the lead on all of the major Player of the Year races in the poker world. Smith, who has been lurking back in the pack for much of the 2012 tournament poker season, has used… Read more »
After a flurry of criticism from players, extensive coverage from the poker media and probably some consultation with their attorneys, the leadership of the Partouche Poker Tour has decided to honor the tournament guarantee made for its Main Event in Cannes, France. As the players came to the felt today to work down to the… Read more »
Amid a brewing uprising from players participating in its Main Event over the prize pool, the owner of the Partouche Poker Tour announced this afternoon in Cannes, France that this year’s tournament would be the last of the organization. According to the Winamax blog, PPT owner Patrick Partouche held a press conference at the Casino… Read more »
The second Main Event of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) wrapped up this weekend at the famed Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia as the final nine players competed for the AUD $326,125 first prize. In the end, it was England’s Samad “Sam” Razavi who emerged triumphant for his first ever APPT title. Razavi entered… Read more »
Most poker players would salivate at the notion of having nothing to do for a month than to play poker in some of the most stylish poker rooms in Europe. That opportunity exists for those that are in the United Kingdom as the 2012 London Poker Festival, sponsored by Bluff Europe, opened up shop yesterday… Read more »
